Krasnodar - Saint-Petersburg: unforgettable impressions

Summer is not far off, many will face the question of where to go and how to get to the place of recreation. Taking into account the political situation in the world and the economic situation in our country, an increasing preference is given to the resorts of the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.

Krasnodar - St. Petersburg by car

If the trip by private car to the Crimea in connection with the events in Ukraine involves some difficulties, then to Krasnodar a lot of Muscovites and Petrograders go their own way with great pleasure.

For this purpose, of course, first of all you should prepare for the trip the car, make a technical inspection of all the main and auxiliary units, replace the oil and worn parts.

It should also be determined which way to get to the place of the supposed rest.

Preliminary paved the way, marks are made of the necessary transit settlements. To calculate the distance from the starting point to the end point, you should add the values of each road connecting the intermediate settlements.

Krasnodar - St. Petersburg: distance

On the highway between Krasnodar and St. Petersburg a little over 2050 km or 1277 miles on the non-metric system of measures. If you build a straight line between these cities, you will get 1,755 kilometers.

The estimated time for the passage on a car of the route between the two regional centers of Krasnodar - St. Petersburg is 29 hours. At a gasoline consumption of 8 liters per 100 kilometers, 164 liters are spent for the whole route.

The length of the road between these cities is:

• Half the distance between the capital and Krasnoyarsk;
• The same amount as the route between the capital and Murmansk;
• Two distances from Ekaterinburg to Samara;
• Three ways from Samara to Nizhny Novgorod.

Example of a trip on this route

Below is told about the journey of one person on a Subaru car from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar through the Volga region and back with a stop in Moscow.

He traveled alone in the summer of 2014. At night at 3 o'clock the man left in the direction of Murmansk highway, then turned to Vologda. At that time, along the entire route up to Cherepovets, the road surface was repaired, so he lost in traffic jams for about an hour and a half.

In Vologda the driver arrived about twelve, where he made a full refueling and went to Yaroslavl. At a speed of about a hundred km / h I reached it in 3.5 hours, then, skirting Yaroslavl, headed towards Ivanovo.

The roads all this time were pretty bad, with lots of potholes. In Ivanovo, the traveler was at 19 o'clock and immediately moved into the hotel "Ivanovskaya".

The next day in the morning of 11 o'clock the man left for Nizhny Novgorod to visit his relatives, where he arrived by 19 o'clock. After staying there for a couple of days, at about 11 am he went on a route to Voskresensk and in 12 hours he was in Yoshkar-Ola.

The next day the man enjoyed the views of the city, and at 6 pm he went to Kazan, where he drove for 3 hours.

The roads in Tatarstan are very good. Approximately 4.5 hours the man reached Ulyanovsk, for 3.5 - to Saransk. After he left Saransk at 8 and by 11 pm was in the Penza Hotel "Quiet Pier", which he chose via the Internet. After spending the night, he went to Saratov in 12 days.

At night, about 3 hours travelers traveled to Volgograd to the hotel "Crystal" for 1800 rubles. The next day he walked around the city, and only at night he left at 2 o'clock in the direction of Krasnodar. He traveled on the way past Salsk, Tikhoretsk, Kropotkin and in Krasnodar was in 12 days.

Reverse route

The same user described the return journey along the route Krasnodar - St. Petersburg. He left for Rostov at night to avoid traffic jams. The road is not bad, but the monotonous steppe tires. Refueling occurs infrequently.

About two o'clock in the afternoon the man has called in the Tula area where it was necessary to go on paid sites of road. The prices are quite acceptable. It is possible to stay in such a place for up to 12 hours.

For the first day he reached the city of Bogoroditsk, where he spent the night at the hotel "Crystal". In the morning the traveler left for Novomoskovsk, while at the railway crossing at Uzlovaya Station lost about 40 minutes.

Further it was expected by a good road to Tula and to Moscow, a big traffic jam on MKAD, then a wonderful road to Peter.

In total this person traveled 24 days. From Krasnodar he went to swim and sunbathe on the Black Sea beaches of Gelendzhik, Kabardinka, Novorossiysk. In total during this time he wound up 7,500 kilometers, consuming 350 liters of fuel, which cost 12,000 rubles.

About sights during the trip

Many vacationers want to have fun while traveling on the route Krasnodar - St. Petersburg. The train and the plane will not provide such impressions. A trip at the wheel makes it possible to visit quite interesting places during the trip.

For example, in the Belgorod region, you can go to the village of Urazovo and visit the current temple of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, whose pseudo-Russian style is striking in its originality since 1898. There is also a monument to the best ace of the times of the Great Patriotic War Kozhedub IN, who over the village first shot down a fascist pilot. In the Valuisky district of the same region you can visit the house museum of the commander NF Vatutin.

A huge number of attractions is in Kazan, Volgograd and other cities along the route.

For tourists who prefer to travel by rail, there are five passing trains covering the Krasnodar-St. Petersburg route. The fastest way is to get on trains from Novorossiysk (№ 036А) and Anapa (109С), which pass through the station Krasnodar-1 and to the Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg both reach in 32 h 32 min.

The longest train is from Adler (No. 116C), arriving at Ladozhsky railway station, which makes 36 stops along the way.

All trains from Krasnodar depart from 17.20 to 23.13, which is quite convenient for tourists.